Senate Majority Leaders by BarkerC

Champion(s):

PolinskyL
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Runner(s)-Up:

HallR


Quiz Description

Given clues, name the following U.S. Senators who have served in the role of Majority Leader since 1920.

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Questions:

Thus far, he is the only Senate Majority Leader ever to go on to serve as United States President.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

This Kentuckian replaced {Answer to Question 4} as Majority Leader in 1937. His powerful keynote address to the 1948 Democratic National Convention revived Harry Truman's bid for re-election and earned him a spot on the ticket as the Vice-Presidential candidate. (edited at 6:42 pm, February 18, 2016 (EST))

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Alben W. Barkley

Known as "Mr. Republican", this Ohioan was selected as one of the five greatest Senators of all time in 1957.

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Robert A. Taft

Known as "Scrappy Joe", this Arkansas Democrat was the FDR's "New Deal Shepherd" in the Senate during his time as Majority Leader.

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Joseph Taylor Robinson

This man was defeated by Everett Dirksen in a 1950 Senate Race after Dirksen called attention to his long absences from Illinois to tend to his duties as Senate Majority Leader.

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Scott Lucas

One of the fathers of the GI Bill, this Arizonan served as Majority Leader in the 82nd Congress before he was supplanted in his seat by Barry Goldwater in the Eisenhower wave election of 1952.

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Ernest W. McFarland

This Mainiac might be more well-known for his reports on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the use of performance enhancing drugs in professional baseball or his work on the Good Friday Accords than any of his work as Senate Majority Leader.

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George Mitchell

In addition to being known as "The Great Conciliator", this Tennessee Republican married into two other prominent Republican families, the Dirksens and the Landons.

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Howard Baker

This West Virginia Democrat was, at his death in 2010, the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history (he was passed by John Dingell in 2013). He remains the longest-serving U.S. Senator in history. (edited at 3:41 pm, February 18, 2016 (EST))

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Robert Byrd

This Montanan served 11 years as U.S. Ambassador to Japan after his Senate career and is the longest serving Senate Majority in history.

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Mike Mansfield

TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: These two men, a South Dakota Democrat and a Mississippi Republican, traded off in the the Majority Leader role between them three times during the 107th Congress

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Trent Lott and Tom Daschle

Born in the Kansas Territory in 1860 to a mother from the Kaw Nation, this Republican is considered the first official Senate Majority leader. He would step down from that role in 1929 to become Herbert Hoover's vice president.

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Charles Curtis